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Saturday, June 02, 2018Community Event

First Saturday: Salute to Summer

Join the Heritage Park for the monthly First Saturday in the First State program. The many partners provide special thematic programming that changes each month.

Here is a list of programs for "Salute to Summer" on June 1:
Its something new every month! #FirstSaturday #FirstState

First Saturday – June 2: Celebrating Summer

Biggs Kids: Beach Buckets
9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Biggs Museum
Kick off those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer by making your own beach bucket craft.

The Invention of Childhood: Being a Kid in the 18th and 19th Centuries
9:30, 10:30, 11:30 a.m., 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30 and 4 p.m.
John Bell House
What was it like to be a kid in times past? How was it different? How was it the same? Explore the evolution of childhood and kid culture through history.

Guided Tours
9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Legislative Hall

Delaware’s Forgotten Naval Hero: Jacob Jones
1 p.m.
The Old State House
This historic theater program examines the lives of two of Delaware’s War of 1812 and their drastically different experiences in the war.

Turn of the Century Inventors
9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Johnson Victrola Museum
Guided tours will focus on the late 19th and early 20th century inventors – Edison, Ford, Tesla, Bell, Johnson and Berliner – to learn of their contributions to the modern world.

They Fought for the Union
10:30 a.m.
Delaware Public Archives
Delaware author Jeffrey Biggs will focus on the wartime service of the First Delaware Regiment from the outbreak of the Civil War to the surrender at Appomattox.

Trades of The Green Walking Tour
10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
John Bell House
Explore the many skilled and unskilled trades once practiced on The Green in the past.

Tours of the Governor’s House
10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Woodburn – The Governor’s House

The Once and Future Courthouse
1:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Kent County Courthouse, 38 The Green
From the 1690s to the present, learn how this building went from a courthouse to a hotel and back again.

When:

Saturday, June 2, 2018 9:00 AM thru 04:30 PM

Where:

First State Heritage Park

121 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. North

Dover, DE 19901

302-744-5055

For More Info:

First State Heritage Park
302-739-9194
www.destateparks.com/heritagepark

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